Subject Guide for Image Resources
See Also Visual Image Resources in print
General Resources
University of Tennessee Digital Library Collections Includes the Albert Roth Collection, UT Herbarium, Southeastern Native American Documents, and the Tennessee Documentary History 1796-1850
American Memory Multimedia collection maintained by The Library of Congress. Includes digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress's Americana collections.
For additional resources, see also the related subject guide
Ancient Civilizations
- Bible History
- Images of Rome Includes modern photographs & 18th and 19th century drawings and engravings
- Maecenas Images of Ancient Greece & Rome
- Mysteries of the Nile. Includes QuikTime tour
- Early Photography in Greece and the Mediterranean (Getty Research Institute)
- Perseus Digital Library
- Pyramids NOVA Online
- Theban Mapping Project More than 2000 images of the Valley of the Kings & the Theban Necropolis. Includes detailed maps, elevations & section with a 3D recreation of tombs.
Architecture & Interior Design
- ArBITAT Architecture & Design Community
- Architecture & Interior Design for 20th Century America Samuel Gottscho & William Schleisner, 1935-1955
- Archivision Educational image resource for architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes, parks and public art. It contains over 15,000 professional quality images. LOGIN as a "guest." UT NetID & Password required
- Great Building Collection
- Cornell Costume and Textile Collection
- Cupola Historic Architecture & Landscape Architecture
- Digital Archive of Architecture
- Digital Library for the Decorative Arts & Material Culture
- Historic American Buildings Survey 1930 to present
- History of Western Architecture
- Kidder Smith Slide Archives on American Architecture
- Renaissance & Baroque Architecture
- SPIRO Architecture Visual Resources Library Image Database
- Tall Buildings (Museum of Modern Art)
- UCLA Cultural Visual Resources Lab
- Vitruvio
- World Architectural History Survey
Art
- Art Image Browser & Timelines
- Art & Architecture Images for College Teaching
- Art Index Retrospective Indexes UT NetID & Password required
- Art Museum Image Gallery Over 155,000 images from the collections of museums around the world. Covers a broad range of time and place including both decorative and fine arts. Many records include curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views and related multimedia. UT NetID & Password required
- CAMIO(Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world. UT NetID & Password required
- Digital Imaging Project Pre-historic to Post-modern art & architecture
- Grove Dictionary of Art Access to additional images through Bridgeman Art Library UT NetID & Password required
- Thinker (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
- Web Gallery of Art European painting & sculpture of the Goth, Renaissance & Baroque periods
- World Art Treasures
Biology & Health Sciences
- Biodidac Visual resources for teaching biology
- Cells Alive
- CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences Categorizes data, variables and other content represented in tables, maps, photographs and other figures in the journals in the Natural Sciences.
- Electronic Zoo
- Health on the Net Media
- NASA Image Exchange
- National Health Museum Visual Library
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Photo Library
- National Image Library (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
- Plant Facts. Horticultural & Crop Science in Virtual Perspective
- Public Health Image Library
Chemistry & Physics
- Archive of Physics Images
- Molecular Expressions
- WebElements Periodic table of elements
Clip Art & Stock Photography
- Common Content Catalog of works licensed to Creative commons available for copying
- Cool Archive
- Fotosearch Stock Photography
- FreeFoto.com Private non-commercial use
- Microsoft Clip Gallery Live
- Open Clip Art Library
Collections
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David Rumsey Visual Collections images of art, history and culture
- Digital Image Access Project
- Electronic Text Center
- Government Image Collection
- Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection (Yale University)
- New York Public Library Collection 30,000 images from books, newspapers, postcards & print prior to 1923
- Los Angeles Public Library Virtual Gallery
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OAIster (University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services)
- Oxford Visual English Dictionary UT NetID & Password required
- Volunteer Voices Tennessee Electronic Library
Copyright Information & General Guides
- UT Copyright Information
- Copyright & Art Issues
- Copyright Decision Map
- Finding Images on the Web
- Public Domain
Graphic Design & Advertising
- Ad Access John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
- Adflip Archive of classic print advertisements
- CDCovers Over 100,000 images of CD & DVD cover art
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
- Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
- Symbols.com Over 2,500 western symbols
History
- Archive of Early American Images Pictures of the colonial Americas dating from 1492-1825
- HarpWeek 1857-1912 UT NetID & Password required
- Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- PastPix
Manuscripts & Prints
- Arts of the Book Digital Library (Yale University Library)
- Early English Books Online Over 125,000 titles from 1475-1700. UT NetID & Password required
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online 150,000 titles from 1701-1800. UT NetID & Password required
- Manuscripta Mediaevalia
- Western Manuscripts to C. 1500 ( Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)
Maps & Geography
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Over 10,000 maps from the 18th and 19th century in the Americas
- Degree Confluence Project
- Digital Sanborn Maps for Tennessee 1867-1970 UT NetID & Password required
- Earth from Space
- Earth Science World ImageBank
- Hubble Site Gallery
- Library of Congress Map Collections 1500-2004
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
- State Map Collection
- USGS Our Earth as Art
- Visible Earth (NASA)
- World Maps
Photography & News
- American Photography A Century of Images
- Associated Photo Press Archive UT NetID & Password required
- Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)
- Sports Photo Gallery
- Time Life Pictures
- Urban Landscape
Technical Help in the Library
The Studio is a multimedia production lab. Open to UT students, staff and faculty, The Studio provides computers, software and staff to assist users in the creation of multimedia-enhanced educational projects. It is located in 245 Hodges.
Digital Media Services digitizes, stores, and delivers audio, video, images, and text for instructional purposes at no cost to instructors and faculty. DMS will manage the entire digitization process and will also assist in seeking copyright permission and managing copyright information for digitized materials. Located on the second floor of the Hodges Library, this service is a joint project of ORIT and the University Libraries.
